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TIL: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the busiest airport in the state of Texas. The airport spans more than 17,000 acres and is bigger than the island of Manhattan

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VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.
XENnX TIL Ford offered Bob Zemeckis $75K to change the DeLorean in Back to the Future to a Ford Mustang. Bob's response was, "Doc Brown doesn't drive a fucking Mustang."
xVB0k TIL Since its inception in 1808, "Australia Day" has been held on six different dates, not just January 26. The knowledge of this somewhat undermines the anti-"change the date" movement's main platform.
6PWZ TIL that there is an entire episode of “Full House” devoted to making fun of people who make duck faces.
ArXn TIL that ESPN’s Mike Tirico once sent harassing emails to a female producer, then later confronted her saying, “If I was single, I would throw you on the table right here and fuck your brains out.” He then proceeded to follow her in his car for miles down I-84 before she took an exit in a panic